Every year five Intel Provincial Science Fairs are held at Karachi, Islamabad, Peshawar, Quetta and Lahore to create motivation of research work and enthusiasm amongst students of grades 9-12 by Intel Education in collaboration with local public and private partners. Arranging these science fairs is a significant step through which an intensified effort is led to flourish and enrich the knowledge and skills on application of science for the students. Read more

Intel® Education Initiative with support from School Education Department, Punjab, has been striving to prepare students to utilize technology in teaching and learning and to make available access to digital content, and providing different types of activities and opportunities, to enable them to create and share knowledge. Students and teachers of public sector institutions in Punjab welcomed the “Technology Week” held from 2nd January to 10th January, 2012, which was organized in collaboration with School Education Department, Punjab and Intel Education Initiative. 30 Schools and more than 3000 students of grades 6, 7 & 8 participated and did wonderful things with technology and digital learning in their classrooms. Secretary, School Education Department, Government of Punjab, Mr. Aslam Kamboh in his message encouraged and motivated teachers and students by saying, ,“ICT infusion shall bridge the digital divide amongst students of public and private sector and the Government of Punjab is striving hard to achieve this goal”. Read more

Roots School System co-authored a unique ICT curriculum in collaboration with Intel® Education Initiative under an MOU signed with Intel Pakistan in March 2009. The core values of the curriculum are to promote digital literacy, critical thinking, collaboration and team work across our work place and communities and is aimed for students from Grade 1 to Grade 7. Read more

Intel Education Initiative organized ICT in Education Policy Forum in Islamabad on 13th June, 2011 for public and private stakeholders, policy makers and leading educationists working in in-service and pre-service education. Read more

The Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Allama Iqbal Open University, and Intel Pakistan Corporation, to collaborate for Intel Teach Program, intending to promote technology aided learning in the education environment through implementation of various programs focusing on teacher training, curriculum development and adoption through this joint initiative. Read more

School Education Department, Ministry of Education, Government of Punjab organized an ICT week in collaboration with Intel Education Initiative in Higher Secondary Schools of Punjab as a part of 21st century teaching practices initiative; the objective of the ICT week was promotion of ICT integration, critical thinking and collaboration. This activity will be held yearly across Punjab, the ICT week pilot was held at Lahore. 11 Government Higher Secondary Schools were short listed by Education Department out of many, to take part in one of its kind initiative. Such activities indicate government’s commitment towards ICT integration and promotion of 21st century skills. ICT week will unlock the limitless possibilities for teachers and students both; it is definitely another step towards new era of schooling. Read more

"Research is to see what everybody else has seen and to think what nobody else has thought" Albert Szent – Gyorgyi Read more

Intel® Education Initiative in collaboration with Pakistan Scouts Organization organized Intel Teach Getting Started Course training from 27th Oct to 29th Oct 2010 at Government Boys Secondary School, Nazimabad, Karachi. 80 Scout Leaders participated in the training and showcased their action plans to the Chief Guest Mr. Ibrahim Kumbher, Executive District Officer Education, Karachi who presided over the last session. They created productivity tools by using word processing, multimedia & spread sheet.

Witnessing the efforts and the positive response of the scout leaders Mr. Ibrahim Kumbher, further encouraged them to take full advantage of the opportunity and said “We have found a golden goose in the form of Intel Education Program, which is giving us gold free of cost. We don’t want to miss this chance and always welcome and are willing to cooperate with Intel education Initiative”.

Scout leaders while showcasing their work also enhanced the objectives and learning outcomes of this workshop. Mr. Ghani a scout leader said, “I always thought IT was impossible for me, but this workshop has changed my thinking”.

After piloting the Getting Started trainings Pakistan Scouts Organization has agreed to implement other Intel Teach Program courses as well; Skills for Success for the students of grades 6th, 7th and 8th and Essentials as a compulsory IT training course for all scout leaders. They will issue a batch to all trained scouts as well.

Another scout leader Ms. Asma Afzal expressed her enthusiasm in these words, “IT was just like a ghost and I had not even touched a mouse earlier, the training helped me overcome my fear and motivated me towards use of IT skills”.

The training was coordinated by the focal person Mr. Asim Iqbal, Assistant District Officer, (Male) Karachi. At the closing ceremony Mr. Shabbir Ahmed Jokhio, District Officer, (Male) and Mr. Khalid Shah chairmen of Private Schools Organization Karachi also encouraged participants by showing keen interest in their accomplishments.

Since 2004, teachers trained under Intel Teach program are provided additional support to enhance implementation. The support is in form of forums for Master Trainers and Participant Teachers, Enhancement and Refresher training.

The main objective of these trainings is to keep participants up to date about changes and improvements in curriculum, new concepts and new focus areas. Reinforcement of trainings and concepts is also stressed upon. Intel Teach Essentials Enhancement Series 2010 workshops were conducted at Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad, and Rawalpindi during September and October 2010. The workshops provided participants an opportunity to share ideas to enhance implementation, discuss common issues that they face and what the possible solutions can be; and they showcased their unit plans.

"Enhancement sessions reinforce a lot of concepts, I enjoyed session on assessment; it gave me more clarity on how to embed assessments in instructional procedures", said Ms. Shazia Nadeem, teacher, Roots School System, Rawalpindi

Ms. Dur-e-Shawar and Ms. Qurat-ul-Ain working conscientiously on the activity Ms. Naheed Khan, working on her notebook at the Intel Teach Enhancement workshop

ISEF orientation workshops were conducted to engage the students of grades 9-12 with scientific methodology and research during September, 2010; 42 such workshops were held all across Pakistan with over 4,500 students and more than 550 teachers participating. The objective of the workshops is to equip science students with skills and positive attitudes towards scientific research and presentation of their research findings. Specifically, the aim is to discuss basic scientific research methods and to outline the guidelines for participating in the Intel ISEF.

Many students and teachers participated pro-actively in the discussions that followed presentation by the resource persons, and stressed the need to bridge the gap between researchers / scientists and educationists / policy makers, and to forge linkages between science research and science curricula. There was also consensus that there is need to give research more prominence socially and through media.

Improved acquisition of skills by students and closer supervision at the time of the laboratory work, further needs to be designed with clear objectives as most of the science subject teaching is perceived to be theoretical. Scientists need to be more proactive in engaging with students.

Intel Education Initiative and Roots School System, a leading private sector schools chain signed a MoU in March 2009, to collaborate to promote technology aided learning through implementation of Intel Teach Program. Teacher Training, curriculum development and adaptation are the main components of this joint initiative. Under the agreement Intel and RSS have worked on adaptation and localization of Intel Skills for Success curriculum for grade 1 to 7.

In this regard, Intel Education Initiative and Roots School System, recently conducted a two day in-service teacher’s training on Intel-RSS joint curriculum, the content was showcased and teachers participated in different planning activities and presented their mock lessons, and used rubric to assess their work and in small groups discussed classroom management techniques and strategies.

"Intel-RSS joint curriculum will not only develop 21st century skills & technology literacy, it will also involve them in other meaningful tasks like planning, reflecting on their work and giving suggestive feedback to each other" said Ms. Anjum Azhar, Headmistress, Roots School System.

Teacher’s Training Institute – Pakistan Air Force has been working for the improvement of professional teaching practices of its faculty for many years. Professional development workshops and trainings across subject areas are regularly organized to change teaching and learning environment.

TTI, PAF Education Directorate and Intel Education Initiative are working in collaboration to promote ICT integration in 25 Fazaia campuses nationwide since 2007. Trainings on Intel Teach Essentials and Getting Started have been conducted with Fazaia campuses in all four provinces.

Series of leadership workshops were conducted during August 2010 with Fazaia principals and head teachers. Through these workshops, 46 administrators were tapped where they shared their implementation experiences; latest program offerings were also showcased. Encouraging the participants Air Commodore Waheed Tariq (Assistant Chief of Air Staff- Education) said, “Need of ICT integration is inevitable if we want our future generations to think critically, independently and creatively.”

Intel Education Initiative, Pakistan in collaboration with Intel World Ahead organized a forum in Karachi on June 16th, 2010 on ICT in Education; for public and private stakeholders, policy makers, international donor agencies and leading educationists working in In-service & Pre-service environment.

The goal of the forum was to examine the critical role educational leaders’ play in promoting, modeling and supporting effective integration of technology and to explore the common grounds to bring educational infrastructure at par with international standards. The forum helped them identify access, and use available resources and technology tools to support professional development, educator practice, and student learning. Intel Teach training portfolio and on-line free tools and resources were showcased along with educational technology. Participants shared their thoughts at the end of the forum.

"Very informative, executed with tremendous commitment, really praise worthy, the authorities in Pakistan need to adopt something similar for all kinds of trainings of teachers. Integrating technology with training of teachers is a unique blend, when majority of teachers avoid bringing radical changes in the education system at the school level." – Shaigan Shareef Malik, Additional Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Islamabad

As the realm of intellectual accessibility expands at amazing rates (due to greater global collaboration and access to information), students of tomorrow will need to be their own guides as they explore the body of information that is at their fingertips. The next generation will be required to learn information quickly, use that information to solve new and novel problems, and then present those solutions in creative and effective ways. The effective students of tomorrow’s world will be independent learners, strong problem solvers and effective designers.

Intel Pakistan Corporation under the Intel® Education Initiative, signed an MoU with School Education Department, Government of Punjab to generate accelerate the integration of ICT in the education system of the province. The purpose is to train teachers on ICT, under the Intel® Teach Program and educate teachers on modern teaching methodologies to enhance students 21st century skills. The government has taken responsibility for all costs of implementation to support this strategic partnership through its own sources alongwith sponsorship from other Donor Agencies working for the common cause for education, science and innovation.

Subject to this effort, Intel will render ICT training to all government teachers to incorporate the Intel® Teach curriculum in the education system. Intel aims to educate 29,000 IT and subject teachers over a period of 3 years. Intel with the School Education Department, Govt. of Punjab will also hold workshops to facilitate implementation in School to promote ICT integrated and Project Based Learning.

For the first time ever, the Schools Education Department, Govt. of Punjab has allocated 1 week throughout their yearly calendar for ICT education in Schoolss as opposed to several different weeks allocated for different subjects like science, English, math etc. In addition the government has also agreed to implement the grades 6 and 7 student curriculum under Skills for Success, first through a pilot in specific districts and then across the province, which will go on to help build a better IT education foundation for the students.

In conjunction, Intel will hold Science and research workshops and competitions at the regional and provincial levels to promote an interest in science and research. Intel will also provide on-going support to SED, Govt. of Punjab, as and when needed, on a mutually agreed basis.

"ICT is a powerful tool for educational change and reform. Intel has always had a keen focus on education transformation, especially as it can result in developing a 21st century workforce that a country like Pakistan certainly needs. Our collaboration with the Schools Education Department, Govt. of Punjab is to help expand access to knowledge and skills which will strengthen and raise the quality of teaching and learning,” said Ashar H. Zaidi, Country Manager, Intel Pakistan. “Intel has produced innovative curricula for students and teachers to this end. Along with these programs and investments, Intel will also dedicate resources to evaluate results in order to ensure continuous, targeted improvement of all of our educational endeavors.”

The Additional Secretary School Education Department, Government of Punjab, Izhar Ahmed said, "The effective integration of ICT into the educational system is an elaborate, multifaceted process that not just involves technology but also curriculum and tutelage." He further added, “Intel Pakistan, with the implementation of the Intel Teach and Intel ISEF in the province, will provide unprecedented support and opportunities for both teachers and students in ways unimaginable.”

Intel Pakistan Corporation under the Intel® Easy Steps Program signed an MoU with Information Technology Department Govt. of Sindh on March 10, 2010 to instill digital fluency skills amongst the population of the province, with the objective of increasing and improving opportunities for education, commerce, healthcare, and communication in Pakistan.

Under this program Intel will provide the Easy Steps curriculum free of cost, to Information Technology Department, Govt. of Sindh and shall conduct a launch training for 20 Trainers of Information Technology Department, Govt. of Sindh and the staff at the Community IT Centers across Sindh, including rural districts. Intel trainers will also provide on-going support to Information Technology Department, Govt. of Sindh Trainers, as and when needed, on a mutually agreed basis.

In addition, Intel Pakistan Corporation under Intel Easy Steps Program recently signed an MoU with Viper Technology, and Intel Channel Partner, and Lahore Electricity Supply Corporation (LESCO) a semi government customer. This program is another effort by Intel to support Pakistan’s ICT for economic development goals, by bridging the digital divide through trainings for adults in the community.

MOU Signing with Information Technology Dept. Govt. of Sindh   MOU Signing with Lahore Electric Supply Corporation (LESCO)   MOU Signing with VIPER Technology Pvt. Ltd.

On February 15, 2010, Intel signed a 3 year MOU with Ministry of Education, Gov. of Pakistan to train school, college, and university teachers on the Intel® Teach Program, actively collaborate to development ICT policies for the country and focus on science and research, through the Intel ISEF program, amongst younger students.

February 24, 2010 - Intel Pakistan Corporation and The City School have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to pave the way for greater application of technology inside the classroom by equipping the school system with latest technologies and teaching techniques.

Cognizant of the need to promote Information and Communication Technology (ICT) integration in the teaching-learning process, Intel Pakistan Corporation and The City School join hands in equipping the school heads and teachers with the latest skills and methodologies that are expected to make the delivery of instruction at par with the needs and abilities of the students and the demands of the times.

Through Intel Education Initiative, more than 6,000 heads and teachers across the nation, of The City School will be introduced to the ways and means of integrating technology in the curriculum, beginning with effective academic and lesson planning. Then gradually, the participants will be ushered into the 21st century learning skills and project-based approaches to learning that would help them transcend from teacher-dominated to student-centered teaching and learning strategy.

The Intel® Easy Steps Basic Course is being piloted in Pakistan, as an ideal adult digital fluency curriculum to help address adult IT literacy needs in the country.

In Q4’09, Intel signed MOU with Viper Technology Pvt. Ltd, Pakistan to help deliver adult IT literacy solutions to the community. Viper staff have been trained on the curriculum, and the program will help Viper reach out to consumers in the community by developing IT skills and literacy.

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Intel® Education Initiative Pakistan and Education Development Centre Pakistan (a lead partner of USAID supported Pre-Service teacher education program Pre-Step) signed Memorandum of Understanding to promote technology aided learning in the pre-service education environment.

Intel® Education Initiative and ED-LINKS (USAID funded Program) Signed Letter of Understanding to promote technology aided learning in In-Service education environment.

International competitions play an important role in the education of highly talented school and college students opening new possibilities to extend their knowledge in sciences. The science competitions give the challenging opportunity to the young scientists to get some feedback of the work with which they are just trying to deal, and to measure their strength in an international field. Perhaps most of the participating students will later become students at various universities and will be researchers reporting at scientific conferences, this first appearance may be a decisive factor in their future scientific career. Read more.

Intel donated 15 computers at Ebrahim Ali Bhai Government Boys Secondary School and with collaboration with Sindh Government; Intel ® Education team has conducted Getting Started Training from March 16, 2009 to March 21, 2009 with 36 teachers. Teachers completed this training with full enthusiasm and commitment for implementation and support. On the showcasing day, Mr. Shabbir Ahmed Jokhio, District Officer, Male Secondary & Higher Secondary was present.

Intel® Education with the collaboration with Sindh Government had organized a Principal Awareness Workshop on March 25, 2009 at St. Peter’s High School. 25 principals and many officers from the Government Education department were present. Mr. Ibrahim Kumber, EDO Karachi was invited as a Chief Guest and Mr. Shabbir Ahmed Jokhio, DO Male Secondary & Higher Secondary was also present.

Intel Education has a legacy of providing interesting and relevant training content in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. Science Teachers Training, titled as “Students as Scientists’, promotes local, national and global scientific research knowledge sharing that stimulates sustainable development. Successful knowledge sharing can improve the impact and promote awareness of advancement in science and technology as a development tool. Read more.

In another record-setting year, 1,604 students participated to qualify for entry in the Intel National Science Olympiad this year with a total of 813 projects from 270 institutions at the district and provincial levels. Again surpassing last year's totals, 228 students and 106 teachers of 78 institutions from all across Pakistan, qualified and participated at the National Science Olympiad 2009. These whiz kids were called to compete at National Science Olympiad held on 22-24 January, 2009 held in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Education and Intel Pakistan Corporation. A total of 121 projects were displayed at the National Library Complex in Islamabad from the 21-24 January 2009. The National Science Olympiad is the only affiliated fair with the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF). Winners of the National Science Olympiad 2009 will represent the nation in the upcoming Intel International Science & Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) 2009 in Reno, Nevada, USA. Read more.

The first Intel contest for innovative use of technology in Pre-service institutes was organized in collaboration with the University of Education and the Intel® Education Initiative’s Intel® Teach Program. The award ceremony for the Intel Pre-service Contest was held at the University of Education Bank road campus, auditorium. Dr. Munnawar S. Mirza, Vice Chancellor of the University graced the occasion as chief guest. Read more.

Sindh Education Foundation (SEF) is semi-autonomous organization focused on disseminating education in the disadvantaged and rural areas of the province of Sindh. The SEF works closely with the community, and has extended support to the Intel Education Initiative in the latter half of 2008. With the support of SEF, Intel conducted an MT batch covering seven schools, with 200-300 students each. Read more.

We must involve more subject teachers besides IT teachers to integrate technology with existing curriculum.

Preparing technology-proficient teachers to meet the needs of the 21st century is a critical challenge facing teacher training programs. Although institutions of higher education vary in their specific responses to this challenge, the University of Education campuses require at least one educational computing course as a core component of their teacher preparation programs. The goal of such courses includes individual development of both confidence and competency in the use of information technology in various learning environments. Read more.

Five-day training was organized by the Teacher Training Department of the Diocese of Raiwind Education System in collaboration with the Intel® Education Initiative in the last week of July 2008. The program garnered the participants towards gaining technology literacy and developing key 21st Century skills for classroom instructions. 16 participants took part in the course; 14 of which were from St. Peter’s High School while the rest were from Dar-ul-Mussarat, a school for special children. Read more.

Computers should be and are used to drive subject material home. Competency-based activities are conducted to link realities in the classroom to those of everyday life. In this way, computers contextualize learning, giving teachers an opportunity to use real-life technology and develop research and problem solving skills that will serve them well in other contexts. Read more.

The Pakistan Observer mentioned how the Federal Education Secretary, Muhammad Jehangir Bashar, said that it was encouraging to see Pakistani students in compete in international competitions and how such partnerships between Intel and the Pakistani government helped improve the quality of education and promote scientific knowledge among students across the country. The Financial Daily also quoted Mr. Bashar as saying, “It is heartening to see Pakistani students get international recognition through this platform created by private-public partnership.”

The News International and the Regional Times both wrote an extensive article about the ten Pakistani students that were awarded for their participation in various engineering competitions around the world, quoting Intel Pakistan Country Manager Ashar Zaidi, who said that the young scientists proved that there was “no dearth of talent and skills among the youth of Pakistan.”

The beginning of 2008 saw a new partner in the space of Pre-service training for the Intel® Teach Program. The Faculty of Education, Elsa Kazi Campus of University of Sindh (at Jamshoro and Hyderabad) organized a faculty training program with the Intel® Teach team. With the help of the course coordinators Professor, Dr. Parveen Munshi and Ms. Shakeela Shah of the University of Sindh a successful training was conducted with 30 participants. The auxiliary staff of the Faculty of Education also provided great support for the 5-day training conducted from the 23rd to the 27th of January 2008. Read more.

Intel ISEF 2008, Atlanta: The Intel International Science & Engineering Fair 2008, the world's largest pre-college science fair was held from 11-16 May at Atlanta, Georgia. Awards were being given to the selected participants from more than 1,550 young scientists from 51 countries, regions and territories for their commitment to innovation and science. Pakistan sent three outstanding projects and four young and excited participants. Read more.

National Commission for Human Development, NCHD joined hands with Intel® Education Initiative to promote ICT integration through their CLTC centers in different districts all over Pakistan. A four day workshop with 23 participants from all four provinces was conducted in Islamabad from 28th – 31st January 2008. The participants belonged to Pishin, Kech, Zhob and Lasbela in Balochistan; Manshera, Dera Ismail Khan and Mardan in NWFP; Gujrat, Mandibahuddin and Attock in Punjab; and Badin, Thatta, Umerkot and Jacobabad in Sindh. Read more.

Intel® Education and Pakistan Rangers will jointly contribute towards promotion of student centered learning environment in the Narowal District of Eastern Punjab in a small rural town on the border of India & Pakistan. The administration of Pakistan Ranger’s Public School and authorities at Pakistan Rangers have taken this bold step to promote technology aided, project based learning. Read more.